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WHEN THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WAS SUBDUED, OUR SONGS CAME THROUGH: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

English Department Edison Chair LeAnne Howe co-edits landmark Native poetry anthology

University of Georgia Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) has coedited WHEN THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WAS SUBDUED, OUR SONGS CAME THROUGH: A Norton Anthology of Nativ

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Professor Isiah Lavender III Keynote Speaker at International Science Fiction Conference

Professor Isiah Lavender III will give the keynote speech at the International Conference on The Possible and Impossible Worlds of Science Fiction, which is being held September 11-12, 2020. Non-presenting audience members are welcome to attend thi

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Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory

Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory (Oxford University Press, 2020) is the companion volume to History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford 2016). The same day the book was published Dr.

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Three English Dept. Graduate Students Awarded Willson Center Micro-fellowships

The English Department and Creative Writing Program are pleased to announce that three graduate students have been

Famine Pots: The Choctaw Irish Gift Exchange 1847-present by LeAnne Howe and Padraig Kirwan

Reciprocation of aid: Irish donors help a Native American Tribe face the coronavirus crisis

In the article "US Native tribes and Ireland’s 170-year-old connection is renewed in the pandemic," Vox reports, "When members of the Choctaw Nation heard about the struggles of the Irish in the